THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2026
It's all over now but the sifting: The young woman who was dragged from her car in Minneapolis has been identified, though she may not be quite as young as we would have thought.
We'll start by offering a limited account we assume to be completely reliable, from Minnesota Public Radio:
Photojournalist's notebook: Watching a woman dragged away pleading, 'I'm just trying to get to the doctor'
“I was just trying to get to the doctor!” shouted Aliya Rahman, who is a U.S.-born citizen, as four masked federal agents carried her, face-down, along Park Avenue toward a federal vehicle waiting nearby. It was shortly after 10 a.m., and moments earlier as I arrived at the scene, ICE and HSI agents dragged Rahman from her Ford Fusion after she appeared to drive around a cluster of ICE agents and observers that were in the street
The agents, one of whom had lost a sneaker, finally got her to an open vehicle and hoisted Rahman in, her face still contorted with cries for help. Meanwhile further up the street, a man, whose face was bloodied, was also loaded into an unmarked car and driven away.
As of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a friend of Rahman’s confirmed to me that she had been released.
While the two people were being detained, dozens of observers and protesters screamed at the agents and the now-familiar shriek of whistles reverberated around the intersection....
At that point, the report by photojournalist Ben Hovland moves to a different incident. Some sobering photos of Rahman's removal to that federal vehicle accompany his report.
We continue to mention this particular incident because the video of Rahman's apparent arrest was widely show on cable news channels on Tuesday evening. This incident also occasioned the dispute on Tuesday's edition of The Five which we cited in yesterday morning's report.
On that program, Jessica Tarlov accepted Rahman's statements at face value. She said that Rahman actually had been trying to get to a medical appointment when she was roughly seized by a group of ICE agents.
Inevitably, Jesse Watters described Rahman's claim as the latest "hoax." (On this ludicrous imitation of a "cable news" show, almost everything is.) He and Greg Gutfeld staged their daily mugging of Tarlov, with Watters asserting that we'd soon learn that the still-unidentified woman had actually been "obstructing an ICE operation," apparently in an intentional manner.
On last evening's edition of The Five, Gutfeld pushed this theme a bit further. As videotape of the incident played, Gutfeld seemed to suggest that Rahman was a "professional freelance agitator," part of a shadowy group who hope to get another person hurt by ICE, due to the propaganda value such an event provides.
(He also suggested that the late Renee Good had been involved in that alleged project. To watch his latest angry and novelized rant, you can just click here.)
The agitprop continued from Gutfeld, who seems to get more frantic, more angry and more irresponsible with each passing day. Meanwhile, a fuller profile of Rahman has appeared in the New York Post, describing her as a 43-year-old graduate of Purdue.
That lengthy profile by Emily Crane doesn't attempt to explain what Rahman actually did on Tuesday morning before she was assailed by that group of ICE agents. We can't vouch for the perfect accuracy of every part of Crane's report, but based on Crane's sourcing, we know of no obvious reason to assume the reporting is inaccurate.
We'll only offer this:
Who was it, the lady or the tiger? Tarlov accepted Rahman's statements at face value. In two days of mugging Tarlov, Watters and Gutfeld have proceeded to invent an alternate demonic novelized tale.
As that video footage ran Tuesday night, many people felt for Rahman as her car window was smashed, as her seatbelt was cut away from her body, and as she was very roughly hauled away. Will our news orgs ever report who she is and what actually happened that day?
We'll look for that with some curiosity. Crane's report identifies Rahman as a long-standing "racial justice activist," but it doesn't say that Rahman did something wrong on Tuesday morning.
We'll be curious to see what the Fox News Channel's pair of flyweight bully boys have to say tonight. It's all over now but the incessant shouting, along with the incessant sifting and creation of facts.
What did Rahman do that day? Crane makes no attempt to say. We still have no idea.
ReplyDelete"Inevitably, Jesse Watters described Rahman's claim as the latest "hoax.""
Heh. Apparently Jesse Watters has been dealing with you BlueAnons and your shitty fake news media for a while. Of course it's a hoax, no doubt about that.
"What did Rahman do that day?"
Puhleeze, Bob. I know and you know what she did: she was interfering with federal agents doing their job, serving and protecting The American People. Are you insane, to deny it? Who are you bullshitting?
There is a reason the saying “Phonier than a Republican voter who isn’t a sexual predator “ is a meme.
Deleteanon 3:52, when you give a response to 3:47 like this one, it makes anon 3:47 look smart by comparison. What is it with you? you seem to go to the outer limits of absolute stupidness and beyond. Your constant comments are absurd.
DeleteAC/MA No one here cares what your opinions of other commenters are.
DeleteI think 3:52 is providing a service by reminding readers that the right still hasn't dealt with the Epstein files, because Republicans don't really care what happens to sexually abused teens at the hands of rich and powerful righ wingers.
4:25 - Actually, I care about AC/MA's opinions of other commenters. But I find it's hard to care about the opinions of rando anons.
Delete4:57 The fact that you attach a clownish nym to your comments doesn't make them any less anonymous than others. My tablet identifies this as a risky website and I have no intention of providing it with my URL nor any other identifiers in order to make up a name that in fact does not make me any less anonymous. You could be anyone; your silly nym gives no special credence to your comment.
DeleteMany times now I’ve given out my Cal bar number (99194) so you can identify me. Check out my bio on my firm’s web page if you like. I’m not afraid to stand behind what I write.
DeleteI'm with Dog Shit on this issue. My barstool at Ye Olde Tank 'n Drool tavern is barstool number 4.
DeleteJust look it up in the Louisville Food and Beverage magazine and you'll find my bio. I'm not afraid to stand behind the bar ...but I got my own stool.
ICEwatch has organized people to interfere with ICE's law enforcement activities. This interference is illegal. Whether or not Rahman was one of the interferers, her treatment was provoked by the intentional, illegal interference. ICEwatch is morally responsible for Rahman's treatment.
ReplyDeleteMeh.
DeleteRaping children is also illegal, and you can’t get anywhere near a Republican Congressional seat without doing it..
I love ICEWatch, because they upset norms.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteMao is too busy beating off to photos of Hunter Biden’s penis on the internet, so he asked me to tell you to squeal louder.
fuck you trollDIC. Get the fuck out of here you fucking pest.
Delete"ICEwatch has organized people to interfere with ICE's law enforcement activities. This interference is illegal."
DeleteAs I replied to you earlier, ICE has adopted a flexible definition of "interfering." Your two assertions that I quoter here are opinions, not facts. Courts have held repeatedly that some activities that ICE calls "interference" are not illegal.
Thanks for that clarification, Quaker. Do you have any details on what sorts of activities are legal or illegal?
DeleteDavid, observing and taking video of law enforcement officers has been held by the courts to be allowable under the First Amendment. Following officers, I think, has also been judged as permissible as long as the person following doesn't get in the way of police activity.
DeleteI don't know whether courts have ever ruled on blowing whistles or honking car horns.
All of these activities have been described by DHS or ICE officials as interference and occasionally as domestic terrorism.
Whether or not they're legal, the whistles and honks surely are designed to interfere with ICE. BTW at 7:54 of the link you can see some truly violent activity by the so-called "protestors."
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz6WLe-5YD0
"Whether or not they're legal"
DeleteDon't think that's a fairly important distinction? Is blowing a whistle a patriotic exercise of the fundamental right to free speech? (A: Yes, I believe it is.) If so, shouldn't any proud American blow that whistle if they oppose the way ICE is enforcing immigration law?
ICE is picking up awful people, including child molesters. I don't think anyone should be proud of helping a child molester remain at large.
DeleteSo you think people shouldn't blow whistles, but you'll defend to the death their right to do so, correct?
DeleteYou mean child molesters that had been identified by the police and who would be prosecuted by our justice system, but now will just get deported? Or do you mean potential child molesters who have never inappropriately touched a child, but ICE somehow still knows that they are child molesters? The utter ignorance of your posts is breathtaking.
DeleteDavid, ICE does not need 2,000 agents surged into Minnesota to arrest child molesters. Can you show me even one report of ICE arresting a molester in Minnesota since the surge began?
DeleteBy the way, David, the other day, Kristi Noem appeared for a press conference standing at a podium decorated with the slogan "One of Ours, All of Yours."
DeleteCan you tell me what that slogan means?
QiB, something about the “Chicago Way”.
DeleteHere you are, Quaker
DeleteBREAKING: ICE has provided @FoxNews a list of the most egregious criminal aliens they've arrested during their surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, & it's the most disturbing list I've ever seen, including numerous convicted child rapists/sodomizers & ten convicted killers, most with deportation orders going back many years. Several from Laos, Somalia, and Sudan.
WARNING GRAPHIC - Highlights below:
Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018.
Tou Vang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deportation order since 2006.
Chong Vue, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of the strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl and kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her, with a deportation order since 2004,
Ge Yang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation with a deportation order since 2012.
Pao Choua Xiong, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape and child fondling with a deportation order since 2003.
Kou Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault with a deportation order since 1996.
Hernan Cortes-Valencia, Mexican illegal alien convicted of sexual assault of a child and DUI with a deportation order since 2016.
Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of homicide.
Gilberto Salguero Landaverde, a Salvadoran illegal alien convicted of three counts of homicide with a deportation order since June 2025.
Gabriel Figueroa Gama, a Mexican illegal convicted of homicide who has been previously deported in 2002.
Galuak Michael Rotgai, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of homicide.
Thai Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2009.
Mariana Sia Kanu, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2022.
Aldrin Guerrero Munoz, a Mexican illegal alien convicted of homicide with a deportation order since 2015.
Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of manslaughter with a deportation order since 2022.
Mongong Dual Maniang Deng, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of attempt to commit homicide, weapon possession, and DUI.
Aler Gomez Lucas, a Guatemalan illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide with a vehicle and DUI with a deportation order since 2022.
Shwe Htoo, a Burmese illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide.
ICE says all of these criminal aliens were roaming freely in the sanctuary state of Minnesota prior to arrest, and that these are the type of people that politicians and activists are referring to as their “neighbors” as they attempt to interfere with ICE.
I don’t mean to doubt DHS/ICE, but is there any kind of independent verification of this? I’m sure we know they and this administration never lie…
Delete1. All of these people had been apprehended by the police and tried. Just like I said.
Delete2. Out of millions of immigrants, we have a dozen of serious criminals.
3. ICE is useless.
David, all of the sex offenders on your list were arrested, charged, and convicted for their offenses. They have all been in custody and subject to the supervision of the criminal justice system.
DeleteShould they all be deported? Maybe. I can only find scant information about their cases, not what prosecutors and judges considered at trial.
So what did ICE add to the process? The arrest and deportation of these 7 men could have been accomplished by a single lawyer seeking court orders. Why was a 2,000 agent surge needed?
What happens to these particular people is not the point. The list illustrates that there are some very bad people among the illegal immigrants. No doubt there are many other bad people and many more good people among the illegal immigrants.
Delete6:41. DiC: "I don't think anyone should be proud of helping a child molester remain at large." Why don't you ask Pam Bondi?
DeleteDavid, serious question. How many voices do you hear at any given time?
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Delete""Whether or not they're legal"
Don't think that's a fairly important distinction? Is blowing a whistle a patriotic exercise of the fundamental right to free speech? (A: Yes, I believe it is.)"
But, judging by the fact that Jonatan Ross is not inducted, shooting people interfering with ICE duties also isn't illegal. It's a patriotic exercise of law enforcement's duty to protect and serve.
And if so, what's all this commotion about?
And if you say that Jonatan Ross should be prosecuted, then why don't you accept that most people feel the same way about those who harass ICE officers?
"...most people feel the same way about those who harass ICE officers?" Makes perfect sense.
DeleteShooting a woman in the face three times=blowing a whistle at ICE officers.
You may be hanging out with the wrong crowd.
The right has already "criminalized" legal activities by protesters, acts that are part of our freedoms and rights as UC citizens. These include freedom of expression, freedom to gather and congregate, safety from unreasonable search and seizure (including in vehicles) and freedom from being detained without due process. ICE meanwhile is offering non-legal warrants (not signed by any judge) as authorization to detail people and invade homes/vehicles), lying about whether protesters have assaulted them, and they are abusing weapons by throwing tear gas and pepper spray into cars and into the faces of people who have done nothing wrong except be present. ICE agents are using any imagined provocation to beat people up, injuring them before detaining them, then failing to provide medical care, food or water. ICE is not verifying whether those they detain are citizens or people with a legal right to be in the US, before hauling them away. This has been verified by judges who have reprimanded the way ICE agents behave and are trained.
ReplyDelete"It does not matter what that specific US citizen was doing before she was pulled out of her car and detained with force. It is not against the law to be an "activist" or protester or observer. She was in her car, so she was clearly going somewhere -- it makes no difference to her situation where she was going. It is no one's business. She has the right to drive her car down a public street without interference by ICE agents, who have no basis for suspecting she was a criminal or not a citizen, and no warrant to detain her.
ICE agents may have been instructed to harrass protesters, but that doesn't make their actions legal. Protesters are in the streets because ICE has been breaking the law. This situation justifies their presence. It doesn't mean the protesters deserved to be mistreated or did anything to deserve it, other than exercising their legal rights under our constitution.
Somerby does not seem to understand any of this. He keeps harping on irrelevant details, which he then claims are not being reported accuratelty. I cannot believe that a child of the 60s, who has been around as long as Somerby, still doesn't understand how non-violent protest works, including what is legal for federal agents and what is not. So, I see this ridiculous nonsense about "was she really on the way to the doctor" and "is she a bit older than claimed" as a smokescreen to muddy the situation, causing less informed people to wonder if perhaps ICE had a good reason to abuse protesters and whether they were provoked into manhandling women (age 46 or not). But if a woman lied about her age, should that get her beaten up in the street? If she was actually going home instead of to the doctor, does that give ICE the right to detain her? Absolutely not. None of that matters. So, why then does Somerby make a fuss about it?
"We can't vouch for the perfect accuracy of every part of Crane's report, but based on Crane's sourcing, we know of no obvious reason to assume the reporting is inaccurate."
ReplyDeleteIf Somerby has no basis for believing that the reporting is inaccurate, why is it necessary to raise the issue at all? Who on earth sets a standard of "perfect accuracy" of "every part" of anyone's reporting. Reporters and journalists are human beings, and as such they will get something wrong from time to time. That is why they print corrections when mistakes are pointed out. Somerby, of course, never prints his own corrections of his work. He rarely bothers to correct anything that someone points out is wrong with his work.
So, why does Somerby go out of his way to say that he doesn't see anything obviously wrong today? Because he wants people to be distrustful of reporting on this topic, even when he has no evidence or basis for claiming there are distortions. But in fairness, unless her finds big mistakes, he shouldn't be impugning the accuracy of any statements here, much less ones offered by the left. After all, we know for a fact that the biggest liars are the President and his cabinet, his own appointees, and that especially includes Noem and ICE agents, who make up big lies to cover up their wrongdoing, their attacks on citizens who have done nothing wrong but exercise their constitutional rights. By pretending that a woman who is slightly older than Somerby assumed, might be lying about her age, if nothing else, he impugns the protesters and plants the idea that they might have deserved being pulled out of a car and dragged to an SUV, for no stated reason, only to be released a bit later. Because the reporters, although seemingly accurate, may have missed what she did. And that is Somerby's participation in another lie, that the press may be concealing the wrongdoing of protesters by taking their word for what happened to them.
Somerby is a huge asshole. He is siding with ICE, without having the guts to say so, by making unfair attacks on the press, and by avoiding what all decent lefties know -- that ICE is an abomination installed by a fascist wannabe dictator who is incompetent and evil and shouldn't be president, except for the meddling of Russia in our nation's elections. When Soerby carries water for Noem, he becomes the worst of the worst, a truly ugly human being. Somerby should be ashamed to write this crap.
How do fuck cares about motives. Governments do not treat their citizens in this manner unless they are fucking Nazis. Fuck these mother fuckers.
ReplyDeleteBeing a resident in Minneapolis obstructs ICE activities. A live resident, I should add. After ICE kills you, you're not longer obstructing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a crack overdose, Soros-monkey. Call an ambulance. Now.
DeleteGo eat a fly, Renfield.
DeleteOkay, this is actually funny, 8:42.
Delete#SashaRiley
ReplyDeleteNever deny autistic LGBTQ activist “deniable assets” access to their doctors. God knows they are likely to need them.
ReplyDeleteNo, they should be dragged from their cars. She was an “activist”, and stood up for LGBTQ. The regime will eliminate you for that.
DeleteWhy should any citizen be treated like she was.
DeleteNo, they should be dragged from their cars. She was an “activist”, and stood up for LGBTQ. The regime will eliminate you for that.
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 7:33pm, that entire paragraph is on her business card.
DeleteYeah, sure. So what if it is?
DeleteAnonymouse 8:19pm, hey! It’s a living.
DeleteNoem says that Officer Ross was injured and that he and his family are in a safe place. No surprise there. She could be BSing the extent of his injuries.
ReplyDeleteIf it goes to court, his only option is to claim he felt he was under the imminent threat of death or great bodily harm. He has no other option. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But he has to claim he was. Otherwise what he did would be illegal.
DeleteThey had to claim that he was injured. Of course, it's bullshit.
DeleteIIya, yeah. They should go right to hanging.
DeleteRemarks like this are unhelpful.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:41pm, coincidentally I’m not trying to help Ilya.
DeleteI have no idea why anyone would doubt Noem. After all, her boss stated repeatedly that Ross was run over.
DeleteRepublican talking heads are parroting the ludicrous remarks made by Noem about injuries to Ross, which it can be surmised from the videos and discharge from the hospital are nonexistent. MAGAts are more than willing to accept as fact this bullshit and spread it as propaganda to anyone gullible enough to believe it..
DeleteI’ll share this with y’all because I thought it was a well reasoned take on why this situation can only go down hill from here. YMMV.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mediaite.com/opinion/ice-lost-the-renee-good-narrative-battle-polls-show-why-it-will-get-worse/
"Venezuela's Opposition Leader Gives Trump Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal"
ReplyDeleteParticipation trophies foster self-esteem and act as positive reinforcement, making presidents feel valued and encouraging them to develop skills without the pressure of only celebrating champions.
You think it'll placate Trump and he'll stop throwing his hissy fits?
DeleteThe first step to liking other people is to like yourself.
DeleteWalz needs to give Trump a Minnesota State HS Hockey Championship trophy and all will be forgiven.
DeletePresident Donald J. Trump met with María Corina Machado of Venezuela in the Oval Office, during which she presented the President with her Nobel Peace Prize in recognition and honor.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Mr. President.
"in recognition and honor"
DeletePity, too? Maybe more than a little pity?
The most recent polling has Trump way underwater on the immigration issue with a favorability rating of 36%. Endorsing and lying about the cold blooded killing of a woman hasn't helped any. The court of public opinion is a disaster for Trump on an issue that was once a strong point. The Minnesotans are not standing for this fascist Gestapo like activity and the polling suggests that they are winning here. The midterms are going to be a disaster for the Republican party. Trump accepting as a gift someone else's Nobel Prize is not a good look either. What a needy little boy.
ReplyDeleteICE plans to identify the criminals interfering with ICE and make their names public.
ReplyDeleteHOMAN drops the hammer: ‘We’re creating a database of people interfering with ICE. We’ll make ‘em famous, put their faces on TV, notify their employers, neighborhoods, and schools. Bet a lot of bosses don’t know what they’re up to!’
And I am sure that you revel in the asymmetry of that. We're talking about the $50,000 in a paper bag Tom Homan are we? Thank you for your continued support of Trump and his regime. He will continue to dig himself deeper into the disdain of ordinary Americans as long as he knows there is a (ever diminishing) contingency of dead enders like yourself supporting him.
DeleteHe can start with Renee Good. Oh, wait. We've all seen her picture and she's already famous.
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